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When to Upgrade Rails (and When to Wait)
Rails Maintenance Technical Strategy

When to Upgrade Rails (and When to Wait)

A practical guide for SaaS founders deciding when to move from Rails 6 or 7 to Rails 8.

Every few years, a new version of Ruby on Rails drops, and the community buzzes with excitement. Blog posts appear, changelogs fill up, and developers start debating whether to upgrade now or later.
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What to Do When Your Rails App Crashes in Production
Operations Ruby on Rails

What to Do When Your Rails App Crashes in Production

A calm step-by-step plan for non-technical founders

When production breaks, your job is to slow things down, gather facts, and bring in the right help. This simple plan keeps you calm, limits damage, and speeds up recovery. Share it with your team....
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The Hidden ROI of Regular Rails Maintenance
Rails Support SaaS Strategy

The Hidden ROI of Regular Rails Maintenance

Why consistent Rails maintenance quietly saves your SaaS from costly rebuilds, downtime, and data loss.

If you run a SaaS product built on Ruby on Rails, maintenance is probably the least exciting line item in your budget. It doesn’t make headlines, it doesn’t wow customers, and it doesn’t feel like...
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Security Best Practices for Web Applications: Lessons from CodeRabbit Exploit
Security SaaS Management

Security Best Practices for Web Applications: Lessons from CodeRabbit Exploit

Practical lessons for SaaS founders and app managers who don’t want their next outage to come from their own misconfigurations.

The recent exploit of CodeRabbit—a popular AI code review tool—is a reminder that security problems don’t always start with a smoking gun. Sometimes they begin with application configuration that seems harmless until it snowballs into...
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Stopping Bot Traffic Before It Stops Your Business
Rails Security Case Study

Stopping Bot Traffic Before It Stops Your Business

A case study on how Rails Fever protects SaaS platforms from the hidden costs of fraudulent traffic

At Rails Fever, we work with SaaS companies that don’t have in-house engineering teams. A recurring issue we see is the rise of automated bot traffic, which has spiked with the adoption of AI tooling...
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